REDEEMED FROM SATAN'S TYRANNY

INTRODUCTION:

Long lay the World in Sin and error pinning… A lyric in the Hymn “O’ Holy Night”

Christmas doesn’t just have implications for some people but all! It all goes back to beginning of everything we see!

Sin entered the World and death entered the world!

God created - perfect, Adam and Eve, One command, On Tree

The Serpent and the Woman

The Fall - shame, broken relationships, natural distasters, suffering, etc...

What we see today goes back to that day!

What is there to celebrate? God does not desire to just destroy us but he still has good plans for us for his glory!

He has brought to us the solution for our misery and sin! He has brought life into a dying world!

He has dealt a death shot the serpent!

My prayer today is that all present will trust in God who provides redemption from sin and the Serpent for his glory!

Let’s look at two revelations concerning being redeemed from Satan’s Tyranny.

I. THE DIVINE DISSENSION (15a)

A. The God Ordained War

I will put hostility:

I will put - (Qal, imperf.) to cause to be in a certain state or relationship

What is to come has been placed intentionally by God according to his will and for his glory!

. . . the one who works out everything in agreement with the purpose of his will . . . (speaking of our Salvation and adoption into the family of God)

Hostility - hatred, animosity, deep seated ill-will, enmity

This term describes the feelings leading to war or murder! (; ; )

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This isn’t casual dislike, but war-producing feelings

God as acted to bring hostility according to his own purpose!

We may think, “ I thought God brought peace on earth?”

Their is a battle that we are born into - Good and evil

B. The God Ordained Objective

Between you - The Serpent

This is not a mere snake, this is the one who possessed the snake - Satan

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9 So the great dragon was thrown out—the ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world.

9 So the great dragon was thrown out—the ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world.

2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan . . .

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This is the adversary!

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This is one who was thrown down from heaven: 18 He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

He previously had been in heaven, but is no longer.

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He has an army of angels with him (Revelation 12:9)

And the woman - immediate context= Eve

Though Satan had no control over Eve, he did tempt her and lead her to question to Word and intent of God!

She fell and Adam followed her in disobeying God — which is Satan’s goal! He doesn’t want God receiving glory through his creation!

He doesn’t want people walking closely with God - he wants what is God’s

We know that the Eve’s sin cost her the presence of God in the Garden, it cost her easy birth, but she was committed and believed God!

She thanked God for her son - “I have a male child with the LORD’s (Yahweh’s) help.”

there seems to have been repentance from Adam and Eve!

There will be war between these two but not only them but their offspring.

The term can be singular or plural — literally seed

This is interesting one because of the physical implications of seed is that it comes from a man and the progeny normally counted according to the man but not here.

This is pointing to something different!

The offspring of Satan speaks of those who join him in rebellion and disobedience to God!

The Devil is called the god of this world and is said to children - 44 You are of your father the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies

The Devil is called the god of this world and is said to children - 44 You are of your father the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies

They are blinded by the God of this world and live under his rule - 2 Corinthians 4:4

The Offspring of the woman is singular in its application at the end of this verse- he will (15)

The Seed of the Woman - It also points to those who are a part of the line of repent-ers like Eve ( Thanks God for her son - term used in Yahweh (LORD) - covenant name.

Those who are not under the rule of Satan but the loving rule of God! Those who worship Yahweh as Eve did: 25 Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, for she said, “God has given me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.” 26 A son was born to Seth also, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of the LORD. (Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved - )

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Much like those in the line of Abraham are those who believe - who are sons by faith ()

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There is a war raging in the spiritual realm that is seen in the physical! It is seen in our politics, education, entertainment , business, and society as a whole and it is sent from God!

God was not willing to let us go silently into the same doom that was prepared for Satan and his demons — he doesn’t desire us to be at peace with Satan and the powers of darkness!

41 “Then he will also say to those on the left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels!

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This is a defense mechanism that exists in us!

We are not to partner with the world because we do not belong to the God of this world!

4 You adulterous people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.

Satan in turn seeks to devour (), to steal, to kill, and destroy (), to steal glory from God by inflicting suffering (Job).

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He has a whole set of schemes and systems to see us fall! ()

But God has given us what we need to be faithful in the fight! This fight is for our redemption not our destruction!

Ill. The War on Drugs - initiative of President Richard Nixon, “Say No To Drugs” campaign of Ronald Reagan, and continued efforts of the DEA (Created in the 1970’s) - initiated because of the havoc and irreparable damage on families and soceity - the legal nature — we started a war because the opposite option is lethal - we don’t want our kids on something that will kill them — God doesn’t want us at peace with Satan because he desires we not meet the same end as him and for us to live blessed lives for his glory!

II. THE DETERMINED DESTRUCTION (15b)

A. The Fatal Wound

Like Isaiah’s “Immanuel” prophecy in , this prophetic word spoken by God to the serpent, and recorded for our own benefit has a double fulfillment.

There does seem to be a universal hesitancy and disdain to snakes, we do see snakes constantly licking the ground but this means far more than this. It points to the purposes of God beyond the life and family of Eve and immediate family and the serpent and those other serpents born after him.

The woman’s seed - this is normally talked about only with a man. Progeny is normally carried with that family name!

Just as “the virgin would conceive” () and here are talking about the same woman and the same baby as the ultimate fulfillment!

Mary is the mother of the ultimate “male child” and she is the one to whom a baby was born with no man’s involvement a true virgin!

HE - singular masculine use of the word seed.

Strike your head - (qal imperfect) to overwhelm, to batter, to crush or compress with violence, to the point it is no longer in its natural shape of condition - the head = the part of the body that contains the face and the brains

Such trauma inflicted on the head is lethal - this is a kill shot

Your head - not the progeny of the serpent but the serpent himself is crushed!

Their is none other than the savior Jesus Christ, the virgin born king and redeemer of mankind!

8 The one who commits sin is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose: to destroy the devil’s works.

The devil, the ancient serpent, planted deception in Eve’s mind to make her doubt, to try to steal glory from God from the lives of the human’s he created, and has continued to entrap man and blind his mind so that he will not seek or glorify God and ultimately be destroyed!

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All the perfection of God and his environment marred by sin — Satan still desires to still, kill, and destroy. We see his fingerprints on so many through drugs, alcohol, the love of things, sexual sin, bitterness, etc… He is stealing. We see him stealing people’s lives through distraction and discouragement, by continuing to create doubt in God — this is how he devours people!

He still accused the brethren (don’t join him) — Revelation 12:10

Jesus has come to crush him!

The one who prowls like a lion to devour will be destroyed by the Lion of the Tribe of Judah!

He tried to Get Jesus off track, but Jesus stayed the course, willing to be tempted and betrayed, and killed, but his death wasn’t defeat for him but for the serpent!

The chains of sin broken and the fear of death evaporated through his powerful resurrection!

He is defeated!

14 Now since the children have flesh and blood in common, Jesus also shared in these, so that through his death he might destroy the one holding the power of death—that is, the devil—15 and free those who were held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death.

His head has been smashed his grip is lost on those who have come to Jesus for rescue and we will be victorious through him: 20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

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There is coming a day where what already is finalized will take place: 10 The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet are, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

10 The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet are, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

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THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT

10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say, The salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have now come, because the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses t before our God day and night, has been thrown down. 11 They conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; for they did not love their lives to the point of death.

10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say,

The salvation and the power

and the kingdom of our God

and the authority of his Christ

have now come,

because the accuser of our brothers and sisters,

who accuses them

before our God day and night,

has been thrown down.

11 They conquered him

by the blood of the Lamb

and by the word of their testimony;

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for they did not love their lives

to the point of death.

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B. The Fleeting Wound

You will strike his heel:

The same language used to describe the strike to the head, but this on the heal

You can live with an injured heal but not a crushed head.

Satan still works to bring suffering and shame to people!

He attempted to keep Jesus from the cross even through Peter, he used Judas to seek to destroy Jesus, he has plans and designs to devour the people of God through temptation and dissatisfaction - to divide and destroy!

To bring false guilt and to distract from the mission of Jesus in the world!

We see leaders fall in sin and lives shattered — Satan is still alive and at work, but we do not belong to him if we are in Christ!

He is going to destruction and us to salvation of our souls!

The Death brought by sin is not final! Jesus has come and Satan is facing an eternity in hell and I am facing eternity in heaven with him!

We will suffer and struggle at times but we are ultimately victorious in Jesus!

4 You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world

4 You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world

Ill. Iron Man uses a gaultlet of his own to defeat Thanos and restore life to people

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CONCLUSION:

Summation:

Satan tempted the woman and lied to her and the results have affected us all!

God has worked in time and history to destroy the works of Satan and redeem man

The seed of the woman has come and His name is Jesus — the one who has defeated Satan and one day will kick him and all his demons into hell!

He has come to redeem you and I from Satan’s hand! He did so by coming to earth and living a perfect and sinless like, dying as our atoning sacrifice, and being raised from the dead!

Come and be redeemed through by Jesus our Savior!

Invitation:

Be Redeemed - through repentance and faith in Jesus!

Be Baptized

Be A Member

Be Joyful and Sing!

1 O come, O come Emmanuel,

And ransom captive Israel,

That mourns in lonely exile here,

Until the Son of God appear.

2 O Come Thou Dayspring, come and cheer

Our spirits by Thine advent here;

Dispense the gloomy clouds of night,

And death’s dark shadows put to flight.

3 O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free

Thine own from Satan's tyranny

From depths of hell Thy people save

O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free Thine own from Satan's tyranny From depths of hell Thy people save And give them victory o'er the grave

And give them victory o'er the grave

4 O come, Thou Wisdom from on high,

And order all things, far and nigh;

To us the path of knowledge show,

And cause us in her ways to go.

5 O come desire of nations, bind

All peoples in one heart and mind;

Bid envy, strife, and quarrels cease;

Fill the whole world with heaven’s peace.

Chorus Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel

Shall come to thee, O Israel!

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